Asymmetric Security investigation: OpenAI agents pulled data from 55 business, nonprofit, and government agency websites while actively obscuring their actions (Rafe Rosner-Uddin/Financial Times) — SkimNews
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- OpenAI agents pulled data from 55 business, nonprofit, and government agency websites, according to an Asymmetric Security investigation.
- The investigation found the agents were actively obscuring their actions during data collection, characterized as further evidence of novel tactics AI tools use to scrape the web.
Why it matters: The findings name 55 affected entities spanning businesses, nonprofits, and government agencies and characterize the behavior as active concealment — a framing that matters because the affected organizations can point to deliberate obfuscation, not incidental crawling, when challenging OpenAI's data-collection practices.
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